New Hydrogen Fuel Catalyst Commercialization

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New Hydrogen Fuel Catalyst Commercialization
(1888PressRelease) Catalytic Carbon, a new
hydrogen-producing catalyst, is now available for
commercialization of systems that will use
hydrogen for fuel supplements and hydrogen as the
primary fuel for large-scale systems. Tulsa, OK
- RD companies can now evaluate CC without
restriction. Phillips Company will no longer
require Non-Disclosure Agreements prior to
shipment of catalyst materials to companies who
plan to develop technology and hydrogen
products. "Commercial equipment companies can
license the use of the CC, and we plan to make
this a very simple licensing process," said a
company spokesman. "Several small, new-start
companies are developing products using this
technology," he said. Hydrogen fuel storage
tanks are no longer needed because of this new
method for producing hydrogen fuel at high flow
rates using carbon, one of the world's safest and
lowest-cost industrial materials. This
hydrogen-from-water breakthrough was a result of
a catalytic chemistry development that
successfully splits water to produce hydrogen,
while retaining oxygen in the water. For many
years, experts have agreed that hydrogen will
command a key role in future renewable energy
when a relatively cheap, safe, efficient and
non-polluting means of producing hydrogen can be
developed, on demand, at very high rates which
make hydrogen storage tanks unnecessary. That
goal has been met, for the first time, using the
new CC-HOD process developed by Phillips Company.
Catalytic chemistry research resulted in the
discovery that an inexpensive activation process
can convert normal carbon into a carbon catalyst
that can effectively generate hydrogen fuel from
water, using a small amount of
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aluminum.
The aluminum does not have to be pure, making the
fuel less expensive. The carbon catalyst does not
require electrolytes or organic additives. It can
operate in pH-neutral water, even if it is dirty,
and can operate in sea water, the most abundant
source of hydrogen on earth. The unique thing
about this new process is that it can be designed
to run under thermal-equilibrium conditoins. It
requires no electrical power or heat input after
the hydrogen-producing reaction is started,
making possible, for the first time, the scale-up
to high rates of hydrogen on demand (HOD), as
described online at www.PhillipsCompany.4T.com/SU.
pdf Hydrogen purity measurements were made by
an independent test laboratory. The new process
produces 93 pure hydrogen with 7 water vapor.
When hydrogen from this process was added to the
air intake to an otherwise unmodified Buick test
vehicle, mileage improvement ranged from 32 to
40. Hydrogen is an energy dense and clean
fuel. Upon burning or combustion of hydrogen only
water vapor is released. No carbon dioxide is
released because hydrogen is not a "hydrocarbon"
fuel. Today, most hydrogen is produced from
electrolysis which requires large amounts of
electrical energy or from natural gas
thermoforming which results in excessive carbon
dioxide emissions. An alternative, clean method
is to make hydrogen from water using Catalytic
Carbon. The new process is called CC-HOD, or
Catalytic Carbon, Hydrogen on Demand. Before
this new process was developed, the use of
hydrogen fuel was limited by the lack of an
inexpensive catalyst that can speed up the
generation of hydrogen from water. "Now that we
have found new ways of rationally designing
catalysts, we can speed up the development of new
catalytic materials enormously," said a company
spokesman. Equipment development and
manufacturing is the next step toward
commercialization. The new carbon catalyst was
developed by an FDA-registered pharmaceutical
manufacturing company. Phillips Company is not an
energy products company. Accordingly, the
development and commercialization of hardware
products will be done by other companies. That is
the next step forward for this new technology.
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Catalytic Carbon was provided to 45 evaluation
sites internationally with very positive results.
Independent evaluators have produced hydrogen at
high flow rates ranging from 1 to 40 liters per
minute. The upper limit of hydrogen production
rate is theoretically unlimited, and will be
determined by the design and operation of the
equipment using CC to produce hydrogen. The
process produces high-purity hydrogen because
when the water is split, the oxygen remains in
the water in the form of aluminum hydroxide. The
chemistry technology is completely developed,
well understood, and ready for commercialization.
"We are in discussion with potential licensees.
Business agreements with additional licensees,
particularly manufacturing companies, are
planned," said a company spokesman. Many new
applications are now possible because this
process is the world's first process that can be
scaled up to produce hydrogen on demand at very
high flow rates. Phillips Company is searching
for companies that can produce hardware and
commercialize the technology in the form of fuel
for vehicles, hydrogen fuel for heating, and
hydrogen fuel for water distillation. "We think
using hydrogen to fuel ships is promising because
the process works well with sea water. More
importantly, we think it makes sense to use
hydrogen to fuel electric power generators on
islands or in remote locations where water is
plentiful and cheap, compared to the cost of
importing oil/diesel via tanker ships," said a
company spokesman. Because the
hydrogen-producing process can uses pH-neutral
chemistry, the hardware corrosion problems can be
virtually nil. In the 2012 State of The Union
address, President Obama said, "This country
needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that
develops every available source of American
energy -- a strategy that is cleaner, cheaper,
and full of new jobs." Most Americans agree.
"We are searching for companies that can become
strategic alliances to produce the equipment and
commercialize the use of hydrogen for fuel," said
A. Shravah, the licensing agent for Philllips
Company. He can be reached via email at ashravah
( _at_ ) gmail dot com Catalytic Carbon, the
world's best catalyst for producing hydrogen from
water is described online at www.PhillipsCompany.4
T.com/HYDROGEN.html
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Inquiries from Europe can be directed to Bion
Energy, Ltd., Phillips Company's strategic
alliance and authorized agent. The contact in
England is fred.davey ( _at_ ) biongroup dot co dot
uk ED note More images, tables and graphs are
included in an expanded version of this press
release available online at www.PhillipsCompany.4T
.com/PRH4.pdf http//www.PhillipsCompany.4T.com